Dear Editor,
Reference is made to an outreach currently being undertaken to various indigenous communities in the Rupununi, by the REO, the Regional Chairperson and the Regional Vice Chairperson of Region 9. From the schedule published on social media, it was observed that the outreach covers all the villages in the North Rupununi with the exception of Surama and Toka.
These two villages were won by the We Invest in Nationhood Party (WIN) at the last elections. Is this the reason they are being excluded from the REO’s outreach? Are these two villages not entitled to hear what developmental plans the Regional Administration and by extension the government of Guyana have in store for them? Do these villages not have pressing economic and social issues that need the intervention of the government just like countless other villages and communities across Guyana? Or are these two villages being deliberately sidelined because they did not vote for the party in power?
Is this the “One Guyana” that the President is claiming to champion? And how can government officials, being paid by the taxpayers of this nation, exclude ordinary Guyanese citizens from an outreach that is meant to listen to community issues and to propose solutions to solve them? That is not good governance. That is plain and simple vindictiveness, and continues to drive divisions in an already fractured nation.